Olalla

The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

tenth edition

LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS

Three of the following Tales have appeared in the Cornhill Magazine; one in Longman’s; one in Mr. Henry Norman’s Christmas Annual; and one in the Court and Society Review. The Author desires to make proper acknowledgements to the Publishers concerned.

Dedication

My dear Lady Taylor,

To your name, if I wrote on brass, I could add nothing; it has been already written higher than I could dream to reach, by a strong and dear hand; and if I now dedicate to you these tales, it is not as the writer who brings you his work, but as the friend who would remind you of his affection.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Skerryvore, Bournemouth.

Contents

THE MERRY MEN CHAPTER 1. EILEAN AROS CHAPTER 2. WHAT THE WRECK HAD BROUGHT TO AROS CHAPTER 3. LAND AND SEA IN SANDAG BAY CHAPTER 4. THE GALE CHAPTER 5. A MAN OUT OF THE SEA

WILL O’ THE MILL CHAPTER 1. THE PLAIN AND THE STARS CHAPTER 2. THE PARSON’S MARJORY CHAPTER 3. DEATH